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This was my submission for Sunshine week over on SYTYC. Today I wanted to share the tutorial on how to create it. It is super easy!
When I think of sunshine, I think of warmth. I think of the beach. I think of lazy days by the pool. Most of all I think of Summer. What could be more perfect for all of those things than a comfortable bright striped maxi dress.
This dress was constructed from multiple colors of jersey fabric. The solid colors of jersey were cut into various size stripes and then sewn together to create a unique striped and colorful pattern.
This is the perfect dress to celebrate sunshine and summer. It is the perfect swimsuit cover up to wear to the pool or to the beach. It is the perfect dress to wear on a summer evening walk, or just to sport around town. It is just perfect for any activity on a sunshiny day.
What you'll need:
1/2 yard each of four different colors of knit fabric
1/4 inch elastic (How much? Enough to fit around your waist.)
The first thing you are going to do is create your pattern. You will want to measure from your shoulder to your feet then add 3 inches to get the exact amount of stripes you will need to cut. For example: It is 56 inches from my shoulder to my feet. I cut 59 inches worth of stripes, because once you sew the stripes together you are going to loose about 3 inches of material.
I cut each cream colored stripe at 3 inches. Then I tapered the colored layers. The bottom color was 13 inches. Then the next color was 2 inches shorter than that, and and the next 2 inches shorter than that, and so on. You can see the dimensions in the image below.
Once you have sewn your pattern together it is time to sew the dress. It can be completed in 6 easy steps.
*I have kept the instructions pretty general. I left out specific measurements. You can decide for yourself how big you want the arm holes, and where on your waist to place the elastic, or how deep and wide of a v-neck that you want for your body. If you do want more specific measurements just send me an email and I would be happy to share what I used for my dress.
As an optional step 7: You can hem all of your open edges around the arm holes, neck, and bottom of the dress. You can also leave it un hemmed since you are working with knit and it wont unravel.
Let me know if you have any questions.


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Save the Planet, buy our soap
My plastic bottle of dish soap claims using their brand "saves wildlife."
On the bottle's label, a mama duck cuddles a baby duck in a manner more designed to trigger the human "oh for cute" response than to reflect any actual scene in a swamp.
To find out just how buying X brand of soap saves wildlife, you must visit the website.
Once there, you find out that the soap itself does nothing. Neither does the company that makes the soap until the customer "activates" a donation to a wildlife organization by typing in a long number off the bottle into the website.
To "protect the integrity" of the website, one must also copy a code filled with a confusing mix of numbers and letters in to a box.
Every one of these steps, of course, eliminates 95% of the buyers from taking part in any effort to save wildlife. In the end, only a tiny, tiny pittance goes to the wildlife organization.
Of that tiny pittance, a good chunk will go to pay the administrative staff of the wildlife organization.
In the end, the whole nationwide soap program will likely result in a few dozen ducks getting a bath after an oil spill.
Of course, saving ducks was never the point. The whole point was to sell soap by using guilt and the "oh for cute" impulse as a marketing tool.
Last week, we went on a little vacation to the North Shore.
Very nice.
However, you can't walk three feet without running into some marketing ploy intended to play on the guilt of suburbanites for being gluttonous pigs the rest of the year.
The coffee is "free trade." Some of it is even "hand-crafted!"
The eggs in the breakfast buffet at the hotel were "cage-free."
Somehow, the mention of a cage, even in its absence, didn't improve the breakfast experience.
It really got deep at the foofy seafood restaurant where we were fed local organic micro-greens off handcrafted plates made by local artisans.
The chairs were made with local wood. The fish was caught out the front door.
The honey in the salad dressing was from local clover collected by unionized bees with full health benefits.
All of this self-righteous baloney on menus and soap bottles is driven by one thing: Marketing. Polls show that if you throw the word "handcrafted" into the mix, sales go up.
Court cases show that anything can be called "handcrafted," as long as a hand of some sort moved a lever on the machine that did the work.
Meanwhile, on the way back to the suburbs, the tired family stops at the supermarket to pick up a bag of Idaho potatoes.
We grow potatoes around here, but can you buy Minnesota or North Dakota potatoes other than at a farmer's market?
Nope, all you can find on the shelf at the supermarket are Idaho potatoes, apparently shipped 1,500 miles.
Or more.
While sitting at the counter of an area cafe, I struck up a conversation with an over-the-road truck driver. I asked what he carried.
"Potatoes," he said.
I pounced. Why in the world do we have to get our potatoes from Idaho when we have perfectly good potatoes grown right around here?
"Well," he said with a wry grin, "your potatoes are probably grown around here, anyway."
Turns out, this truck driver drives semi-loads of potatoes from North Dakota out to Idaho where they are bagged into bags that say "Idaho potatoes" and sent back here, often in the same truck, to be sold.
So powerful and profitable is the brand "Idaho potato" that it is worth it for the food people to pass their potatoes through Idaho just to get the label.
When we're on vacation, we savor locally grown, hand-crafted potatoes fertilized with the manure from virgin cows.
On the way back to our normal, wasteful, gas-guzzling lives, we pick up a bag of potatoes that might well have taken a 3,000 mile round trip to Idaho before ending up on our plate.
Either way, it is the marketing department, not the quality department, which makes the decision.
Either way, the emotions and knee-jerk impulses of the ever-stupid consumer are played like a fiddle by people who really don't give a rip about anything but the bottom line.
To find the truth, you just have to find a truck driver.
They know the shortest routes.
And they know where the potatoes have been.


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Dear Jewish Hosts and Hostesses,
If you are looking for some tasty recipes for Passover, than this is an easy one to try.
One of the reasons that I like Chilean sea bass is that it doesn't have that "salmon smell", so if you are having company you wont have to air out the house before your guests come charging in. This sea bass recipe has the juiciness of a fried fish but is of course, assembled and baked in a mess-free flash.
I love it a a main dish for one of the Yom Tov nights, as after I hopefully survive the Passover seders AND a Friday night, I know I wont be in the mood to look at meat for the next couple of days. Enjoy!
Kosher Recipe Ingredients:
- 4 Seabass fish fillet sliced thin.
- 3 teaspoons Olive Oil
- 1/2 cup of matzo meal 0r whole wheat matzo crushed in cuisinart.
- 1 garlic clove
- 1/2 cup unsalted nuts (pistachio, pecans, macadamia, walnuts may be used) (I used pecans)
- lemon juice
- kosher salt
- cumin
- black pepper
- oregano
Passover Recipe Directions:
- Place parchment paper on pan.
- Place fish on paper and sprinkle with lemon juice.
- Chop remaining ingredients in food processor adding spices to taste.
- Spread chopped mixture on top of fish.
- Lightly sprinkle with olive oil or spray with olive oil spray on top.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 25 minutes or till done.
- If you don't eat nut on the Passover then just mix the matzo meal and chopped matzo with the spices, and sprinkle according to the directions….
Related articles
- Healthy Eating Tips for Passover 2011 (thejewishhostess.com)
- Grandma's Chewy Passover Date Nut Bars (thejewishhostess.com)
- Creamy Low-Fat Passover Cheesecake with A Chocolate or Coconut Macaroon Crust (thejewishhostess.com)
- Debbie's Not "JUST" Passover Cookies! (thejewishhostess.com)
- Claudia's Passover Marshmallow-Nut Log (thejewishhostess.com)


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Apollo Tumbles On SEC Insider Trading Probe
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Shares of Apollo (APOL), the nation's largest for-profit educator were falling 1.7% in recent trading, on news that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating insider trading at the company.
As Reuters is reporting, Apollo disclosed today that the SEC contacted the company seeking information about stock sales and a Feb. 28 regulatory filing. That filing, which included the company's second-quarter guidance, sent shares tumbling as the company estimated it would enroll fewer new students.
This is the latest in a string of scrapes Apollo has had with the government, as the sector has come under the microscope regarding potentially fraudulent activities by recruiters and other employees as well as low graduation rates, among other issues.
Apollo did not release the names of the insiders in question, but said it is voluntarily working with the SEC's investigation.


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So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn't possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn't worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case.
Light Painting in a Can
Light painting is a terrific photographic trick, one that just got cooler-looking with an aerosal-can shaped container with an interchangeable LED in place of a nozzle. It's just an art project, though, and actually manages to be less practical than just holding up an LED in your hand, right? Right. [PetaPixel]
Fake Google SIM Card Is a Google Card Sim
You can tell that this alleged Google SIM card is fake for two reasons. 1) It doesn't make any sense. 2) It's not accompanied by a twee ad campaign. Okay, okay, three reasons: the people who made it up admitted to making it up.
I Want to Ride My (Weird) Bicycle, I Want to Ride My (Weird) Bike
Guests at a W Hotel in London will be able to ride this steel strip-wheeled novelty bike all around the city until late October. I can't decide if I'm more jealous that I don't get to ride it myself or that I don't get to laugh at the people trying to navigate it around Piccadilly Circus. [Fast Company]
Left Behind is our daily collection of chaff we didn't think was quite good enough to post on its own, and why.


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Sunstone Hotel Investors Sells Hilton Del Mar
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Sunstone Hotel Investors Inc. is selling the 257-room Hilton Del Mar, as part of a larger sale of three hotels to an undisclosed buyer for a total of $107.1 million.
Aliso Viejo-based Sunstone said in a statement that it has entered into an agreement to sell the Del Mar property, along with the 229-room Doubletree Guest Suites Minneapolis and the 350-room Marriott Troy in Michigan. The company did not break down individual sales prices on the properties.
Sunstone also said it has completed the previously announced sale of the 284-room Marriott Del Mar in Carmel Valley for $66 million. The buyer is Thayer Lodging Group of Maryland.
"The three-hotel portfolio sale we announced today, coupled with our previously announced sale of the Marriott Del Mar, are solid steps toward our stated corporate goals of improving our portfolio quality while strengthening our balance sheet," Sunstone President and CEO Ken Cruse said in the statement.
The 286,881-square-foot Del Mar Hilton, located at 15575 Jimmy Durante Blvd., was built in 1987 and renovated in 2003, according to CoStar Group.


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Grape Hyacinth 'Blue Spike' Muscari armeniacum
A vigorous bulbous perennial, muscari armeniacum boasts all of the charm of the genus with slightly larger blossoms. Commonly known as the Armenian grape hyacinth, its lush mid-green foliage is comprised of long, linear, strap-shaped leaves, with the outer leaves of each clump arching gracefully. In spring, a single, thick floral stem produces a conical spike of tiny, rotund but bell-shaped blue or white flowers. The Armenian grape hyacinth thrives in moist but well-drained soil in full sun, but needs shelter from frost and excessive wet. An excellent choice for groundcover on banks and slopes, garden edging and in rockeries. Pruning is not necessary but dividing dense clumps during summer dormancy is recommended